Big Secrets

Chapter 10: Damn Zombies

Mike's POV:

Blood, it just kept dripping endlessly. And Annie, she was just hanging there, all tied up and hanging from the chandelier. How she got up there, total mystery.

I looked down at Clara. She wasn't sobbing anymore, instead she was in total shock. She just kept looking up at Annie with watery eyes and rocking herself back and forth. The scream she had unleashed before was probably enough to wake the entire neighbourhood, plus probably even the dead. I don't blame her though, if I weren't so shocked when I saw her just dangling there then I'd probably have screamed. To be honest, I was still shocked, cause it wasn't everyday that you saw somebody hanging from a chandelier and slowly bleeding out.

I didn't want to look back up cause the scene was just... too much. Who could even do such a thing? And how the hell did the person get her up there cause the last time I checked you can't just magically fly up there and tie her to a chandelier.

Clara's POV:

I couldn't cry anymore, I had nothing left in me to cry out. I just couldn't believe it. She couldn't have been dead, could she? She couldn't leave this world yet, she was too young. Hell, I was too young. Too young for any of this cause 16 isn't really much of an age. Yet there she was.

I already knew who did this, there was no doubt in my mind about who has to pay for all of this. And with God as my witness, she would.

I finally lowered my head back down and stared at my feet. My neck was already sore from staring straight up for so long. I couldn't take it. Why would she kill Annie? What did she ever do to her?

I stood up, took one final look up at her and headed back to the door. I walked towards Mike and saw that he was also just as shocked as me, but probably not as sad. No, he didn't feel the loss of a good friend, a childhood friend, a bestfriend.

I looked up at him. He was much taller than me making me look like some damn hobbit next to him.

"Maybe we should go?" He asked me quietly, not wanting to upset me.

I only nodded slowly, not exactly sure myself if I could still hold it together. I made slow steps towards the door. I felt Mike follow me so there was no point on looking back, cause I knew, that once I looked back again, I couldn't tare my eyes away from her and I would collapse into sobs again.

I was already out of the door with Mike on my tail when I heard a loud bang. It wasn't like a gun shooting or anything, no, it was like something heavy falling to the ground. Something really heavy.

I looked back and felt my eyes almost pop out. One of the big doors was lying on the floor in the doorway. I looked at Mike. He was looking at in just as much shock as I was. I stepped closer to the door seeing that its old hinges were rusty and broken obviously not being able to support the door anymore and letting it fall.

"Well, that bang was so loud it must have even woken up the dead. Damn zombies, wanting my brain and sh*t." Mike tried to lift the mood, but failed miserably.

I gave him a flat look making him raise his hand in surrender and back away. I was about to turn my back and walk away when I heard the sound of shattering glass and something cracking open.

I looked back at the doorway towards the place where the sound had came from. I couldn't see anything being wrong but I had a strange pull towards the ballroom. I walked through the doorway and immediately my eyes found the source of the shattering glass and cracking.

The chandelier was now hanging just a mere metre from the floor. Long cables and chains were still connecting it to the sealing. The sealing had a large black hole from where the cables were dangling. Small pieces were still falling and hitting the chandelier making the small glass parts shatter and fall to the ground.

And then, I noticed Annie. Her toes were barely touching the ground and her head was bowed, her chin pressed against her chest and her hair cowering her face.

I hadn't noticed that I was running until I stopped dead in my tracks just at hands reach from her. She was so close yet so far. I wanted to hug her and shout at her to come back, but I couldn't, the fact that she was gone from this world was so unknown and painful that I couldn't even go near her.

Suddenly, I noticed Mike standing next to me staring at me. He turned his head away as soon as he saw tears rolling down my cheeks.

"We should at least untie her though, don't you think?" He said to me looking at Annie's mop of hair.

I nodded slowly wiping away my tears and taking a small shaky step towards her. I looked at Mike who was also starting to help me untie her from the chandelier. The ropes were starting to loosen around her body and soon her body came falling towards the floor, due to gravity.

Mike and I caught her before she could completely connect to the floor setting her quietly on the ground. Her hands and legs where still tied together and there was still blood leaking from some part of her body.

I sat down beside her and started untying her hands while Mike worked on the ropes around her ankles. I bitter sadness started seeping back into my thought as we untied her in silence. Her body was still warm, probably because of the fact that she wasn't killed that long ago.

When I was done, I just couldn't help but look at her now lifeless and pale face making tears start to come back. Mike was sitting at the other side of me and was too looking at Annie in sadness. Then, if my eyes didn't deceive me, I saw a small tear the corner of one of his eyes. He too felt it, the pain and sadness of loosing a person.

And that's when I broke again. Loud sobs filled the air and even more tears made its way down my face. Mike came beside me and I pressed my face against his shoulder for support. Mike sniffed and waved his hands to get rid of his tears while I was just letting it all out.

I finally pushed my head away and looked back at Annie. Her hair was all over her face hiding her face. I gently pushed the strands of hair of her face with a shaky hand.

She was so close to me, she always supported me in what ever I did. I told her everything that bothered me, everything that I had in my mind. When ever I needed her she would come running just to hang out together as much as we could. But now. Now she was gone.

A nother tear fell from my face as I closed my eyes and looked down away from her. I gripped her shoulder tightly for support as my shoulders started to shake again.

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GASP

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A loud raspy gasp for air filled the air followed my heavy coughing and even more gasping as the flesh beneath my fingers started to tense and shake from the violent coughs.

My eyes opened wide open and looked back to were my hand was. It can't be.

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A/N: Hellooooo! So this chapter might be boring for some people, but for me this is a very important chapter as it leads to many flashbacks and memories of the characters letting you readers discover more about them and reveal many secrets of their life, so hold on and just wait a little to allow the story to get better if you think that it's boring now.

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